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Hey, sorry if this topic is in the wrong place, I'm not too forum-savy. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone can help, I know some basic scripting now, but I'm still pretty new to it; I am making a mod involving having to buy an item. I want the item set at a specific price (1000 caps) and the option to lower it with a [strength] challenge to 700 caps. I have looked at the basic vanilla scripts, so I know a part of the script (the SetItemValue 1000 part), but at the start of the script, I have tried Begin OnGameMode SetItemValue 1000 End (I used the proper open/close brackets in my script, i think o_O ) which doesn't seem to work for some reason, and I would have the thought the On AddPlayer SetItemValue 1000 End would only work if the player already owns it? I did try that anyway, which again didn't work, but maybe I'm doing something wrong there? as for the script part about lowering the amount with a challenge, I'm clueless, to be honest :( Any help from you guys would be really appreciated, and as soon as my mod is done and basic-tested, I plan to post it on here :) thanks in advance guys, I look forward to hearing from you.

That's great, I shall definately have a look through that - looks like it could help me understand things a bit better, thank you :D now my good (if hideously ugly) hillfolk companion can carry things for me too! hurray :D

Thanks very much for the advice, I just got it up and running. I tried looking at the vanilla companions at first, but I'm a bit... challenged at scripting, so I didn't really understand it. Hopefully that will change with practice. Thank you again for the advice, I appreciate you taking the time :)

Hi, I'm very new to geck, and you guys have been very helpful and friendly, I probably wouldn't have gotten to the point I'm at now without the assists. I am in need of an answer to a question I can't seem to find an answer for though; I am trying to work out how to make a companion that can help carry your stuff just like a vanilla companion can, I know the basics of companion making, but so far my efforts have failed with the inventory part. Could someone please give me a few pointers? Thanks very much in advance :)

I've only just started modding with the Geck, so I'm very new to it, but I am working on getting a brawler companion up and running as a practice companion, so when it's finished, I'll post it on here. I aim to make him fit into the game as a regular companion with all the standard options if possible. It's relatively easy to make one without dialogue, etc. At it's most basic, just use a brawler as a base, delete the factions, set the faction to player, untick the agression box, and make a follow package. If you need extra details on this basic form, just ask, more than happy to help with what little I can.

Yeah I did, but thanks anyway :) I'm not sure what went wrong, but I restarted the companion from scratch and set the Fallout 3 main file as the active file (I must have set Point Lookout or something as the active file to get it as an esm). Anyway, here is the dialogue you asked for, Nadin (my alien will be called Elvis) thanks very much for your help :D - I’m tired of looking at your ugly mug, Elvis. You’re fired. Elvis: Offence! Angry! Or this joke? - Yeah, I’m just kidding. Elvis: Happy again! - I’m serious. Elvis: Highest offence! I shall hope I you do not meet again! - I need your help out there again, Elvis. (already accompanied) Elvis: Insist you I travel alone! Abandon other! Then shall talk. - I need your help out there again, Elvis. (not accompanied) Elvis: Will travel with new friend of mine! Let you me leave! - Let’s get going. Elvis: Agree! - Not just yet. I want to talk to you about something. Elvis: Speak you brain thought! - I just wanted to make sure you were still here. Goodbye. Elvis: Time you I leave, shoot things! - Elvis, I need you to go into that chamber and turn on the purifier. (Male) Elvis: What? No. - Elvis, I need you to go into that chamber and turn on the purifier. (Female) Elvis: What? No. - Let's talk about your tactics. Elvis: Mild offence! Speak you brain thought! - I want you to change your combat style? Elvis: I trained in many combats! - Let’s talk about something else? Elvis Human customs I find strange. - Let’s get going. Elvis: Agree with human love to kill! - Switch to a melee weapon. (I like what you’re doing. Stick with the melee). Elvis: Agree with strange friend! - Switch to a melee weapon. Elvis: I can kill with whichever I have in hand! - I want you to use ranged weapons. (You're not bad with a ranged weapon. Keep it up). Elvis: Agree with strange friend! - I want you to use ranged weapons. Elvis: Used to shoot womp rats back at homeland! - Let's talk about how close you're following me. (Female) Elvis: Human female complain plenty! - Let's talk about how close you're following me. (Male) Elvis: Human male complain plenty! - Stay close to me. (You’re good where you are, Female) Elvis: Human customs much intimate. - Stay close to me. (You’re good where you are, Male) Elvis: Human customs much intimate. - Stay close to me. Elvis: I watch back and rest of you. - Your distance is good. Let's talk about something else. Elvis: Find human talk boring. - All right, you're good. Let's get out of here. Elvis: Agree! - Keep your distance. Try to flank them. (Keep hanging back.) Elvis: Will follow order. - Keep your distance. Try to flank them. (Female) Elvis: Find smell of female anyway disturbing. - Keep your distance. Try to flank them. (Male) Elvis: Find smell of male anyway disturbing. - Enough about tactics. Elvis: Agree! - Let's trade equipment. Elvis: Human have many attachment to junk. - Wait here. Elvis: Will wait for friend, if friend plans to return! - (Targets and hits NPC) Elvis: For the homeland and the mighty city of Quizblorg! - (Greeting while waiting) Elvis: Let fine warriors be killing! - (Greeting, random) Elvis: I miss the homeland. - (Greeting, random) Elvis: Find humans strange and sometimes annoy. - (Greeting, random) Elvis: Highest greeting to human!

I shall write some simple dialogue over the next couple of days and let you know. Thank you :D I'm not doing too bad following a tutorial I found online for companion creation, but I'm a little stuck on the later stages. This is probably gonna make me sound sorta dumb, but I got some basic dialogue sorted for a test companion and such, but when I load up the data file for the companion and the main game, the test companion (I have placed outside Vault 101) doesn't appear :wallbash: is it because the file is an esm instead of an esp? if so, is there any way I can change this? Thanks very much in advance :)

Really? Wow, thanks so much, that would be great :D I'd really appreciate it :D

Thanks very much for the help guys, I appreciate it :) I shall definately take up the advice, and begin on my own, but if you don't mind messaging me when you have a working version, Nadin, that would be awesome :) Just recently I have been fascinated with the aliens and eventually when I get my head around the geck, I'm gonna start making quite a few alien-related (but not immersion-breaking) mods. As for the voice acting, that one is a tricky one... I'm British, so I generally can't do a lot of all-purpose voice acting myself due to the American Fallout setting, and how an alien would communicate is a bit of an obstacle. I was toying with the idea of the alien creating a kind of broken-english translator (they are very intelligent after all) but I think I'm gonna need a synth gen anyway for future voice-acting :)

Hi all, Sorry if there's already a post about this, I looked through 15 pages then gave up searching :P (it's very late at night here). I'm very new to the geck and modding fallout 3, but I was just wondering if there's anything special I need to create an alien companion mod or whether it can all be done through the geck and Mothership Zeta alone? I would love to have one for myself (I have some quest ideas and background stories to go with it, but it's all in the concept stages at the moment). Any advice that can be given to help, or point me in the right direction would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time, guys.